centralize

Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

cen‧tral‧ize (also centralise British English) /ˈsentrəlaɪz/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
[Word Family: noun: CENTRE/CENTER, centralization ≠ decentralization, centralism, centrist; adjective: central, centralized ≠ decentralized, CENTRED/CENTERED, centrist; verb: CENTRE/CENTER, centralize ≠ decentralize; adverb: centrally]
to organize the control of a country, organization, or system so that everything is done or decided in one place OPP decentralize:
　 ▪ plans to centralize the company’s U.S. activities

—centralized adjective:
　 ▪ a centralized database

—centralization /ˌsentrəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ -lə-/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Attempts to centralize the economy have failed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As hospitals continue to consolidate, centralize, and diversify functions, competition will increase at all job levels.
▪ He was going to close down about half the stations, centralize operations, shatter the old ward boundaries of police districts.
▪ More and more companies are taking R & D abroad but many still prefer to centralize this critical activity at home.
▪ The provincial authorities were to turn over more revenue to the state while receiving reduced subsidies, in order to centralize resources.
▪ This would have conflicted with Haile Selassie's intention of curtailing the power of the feudal Rases and centralizing the administration.
▪ When fiscal crisis erupts, they consolidate agencies and centralize control.
▪ Which functional resources to centralize or decentralize 3.
▪ With the money economy spreading extremely slowly, he could only centralize very limited financial resources.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  centralise, concentrate
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise